Recently received some coins back from PCGS. Instead of the usual plastic box, they arrived in a white cardboard box. I like the design. It’s...
I’ve been a buyer on eBay for almost as long as it’s existed. I have over 1000 purchases (very few are coins) with 100% positive feedback. I’d...
I was astonished at the bright purple toning in this PCGS photo of a Morgan fifty cent copper pattern. It’s J-1602 and PR66+RB. And yeah, I...
Thefts occurred over 10 years ago, but legal wrangling over sentencing of thieves may still be going on. Superbowl rings awaiting distribution,...
NGC slab numbers (i.e. certification numbers) have a 6- to 8-digit number followed by a dash followed by a 3-digit suffix. The suffix is the...
I like to look occasionally at the shared orders on the PCGS website (see link below) to see what’s being graded and what the grades and...
53 years ago, a 6 year old boy in Russia shoved a 1 kopek coin up his nose. He couldn’t get it out and was afraid to tell adults. He then forgot...
The series is the art deco gold coins produced 1929, 1932, 1933, 1935 and 1936. See picture. Mintages in the first 3 years were very low but in...
They are advertising a coin that interests me, but I've never encountered them before? Has anyone bought from them, and how did it go? They...
In the past as now, Heritage provided full-slab photos of all coins. But they also provided closeups of medium to high-end coins. Now, I’ve...
In certain years, the Royal Mint blackened farthings (1/4 pence) so they would not be confused with half sovereigns. See the pic. How did they...
Likely the Mint will eventually institute a lottery system for limited issues. Folks could sign-in and get a lottery number assigned starting 2...
IF you have or are thinking about having competitive registry sets and hope to get a best set award, there is a big difference between PCGS and...
Seems to me that it’s the same coin that can be bought from many dealers … just has fancy packaging. If so, the mint stating a mintage of 7,000...
I haven’t bought from the mint in decades but thought I would take a chance on the end of WWII coins … especially the gold. Correct me if I’m...
I’m generating a set of coin trivia questions, and to restrict potentially correct answers, a few definitions are needed. The definitions below...
Just finished reading “The United States Trade Dollar” by John Willem. I think this is the only book devoted exclusively to the trade dollar. It...
The momentum effect in economics usually refers to price of a security continuing in the direction it has been recently changing ... up or down....
Sticks and snails and .... No, no. It's reasonably certain that PCGS and NGC slabs are acrylic (polymethacrylate). PCGS stated a while back...
Mint hasn't announced price yet, but if you get one, it will worth several times what you paid the next day. With only 1945 produced, only a...
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